No pain means the end of feeling; each of our joys is a bargain with the devil.
True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
Sometimes surviving means compromise.
People will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
